New laws -- 293 of them -- go into effect Saturday in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE -- On Saturday at 12:01 a.m., shoppers looking for cigarettes might have a harder time finding them in stores, and their purchases of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines will be more closely watched by police.
All occupants of a vehicle -- not just people in the front seat -- now must buckle up. Drivers must give bicycle riders at least 3 feet of a space while passing them. And left lanes on multi-lane highways will be reserved for left turns and passing.
Gun toters will face a mandatory three years in jail for "recklessly" discharging firearms within 1,000 feet of a parade route or demonstration, and throbbing sound systems mounted on the outside of a vehicle's chassis will be verboten.
Creating animal-human hybrids is now a crime. And doctors, pharmacists and other health care providers may now decline to perform certain procedures that violate their conscience.
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They obviously had problems with parade and protest participants getting hit by wild bullets shot at random. Or did they. I would have thought Jindal smarter than this.
Every problem in this world can be solved with more laws and a government program!
Welcome to the era of big government. The only party that use to stand against this was the Republican party, but today even they are on board, ask McCain, Bush.........
"Who knew we needed another almost 300 laws on the books?" said Jim Brandt, president of the Public Affairs Research Council, an independent governmental watchdog agency. "Most are minor tweakings (of existing law). Nothing jumps out as a life-changer for the general public. It is the minutiae of government."
"It is the minutiae of government," that strips of our liberty.